Kiyash Monsef

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NY Times bestseller • Morris Award finalist • BIRD OF A THOUSAND STORIES • ONCE THERE WAS • kiyash.com • https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kiyash-Monsef/194209060

It's the two shot sequence from Moonrise Kingdom where the boy asks what kind of bird are you, and the girl says, I'm a raven.
This wild sentence is highlighted: There was, literally, no one directing traffic, no one policing the streets, no one delivering the mail or picking up the garbage or bringing the food to the shops, no one stopping the looting, the rape, the revenge-taking as millions of homeless, ill-clothed, malnourished, disoriented foreigners: Jewish survivors, Polish forced laborers, former Nazi collaborators—all displaced persons—jammed the roadways, the town squares and marketplaces, begging, threatening, desperate.
Two mourning doves sitting on a messy little nest they made in a corner under the eaves of my house
The Diameter Of The Bomb, a poem by Yehuda Amichai The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God. © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
A layout showing the Kirkus Reviews masthead and the title, Best Middle Grade Books of the Year. Below, a screenshot of the thumbnail for the starred review of Bird of A Thousand Stories. Pullquote reads "Breathless adventures in richly imagined settings – an entrancing sequel."
A post it note stuck to a laptop keyboard with "67" written in ballpoint pen on it.
Screenshot of a comment from a Word document: Kiyash Monsef Please 50% stet this. The words following "something about" are a complete sentence in invisible quotes. We do not need the word "who" but I think we also don't need that comma that was there before.
Flyer for YALLWEST Saturday May 3 Once Upon A YALLWEST Full schedule at yallwest.com My scheduled appearances: Fiction Feud: it's like Family Feud ... but with Authors! (Cafeteria, noon) MGnopoly: A board game where authors need to collect books for their shelves ... by answering your questions! (Cafeteria, 2 pm) Signing (Innovation, 3 pm)
Book Launch Celebration flyer for BIRD OF A THOUSAND STORIES ... Tuesday Feb 4th, 6 pm -- Sausalito Books By the Bay, 100 Bay St, Sausalito
A layout of covers of the Prydain Chronicles books by Lloyd Alexander